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Asia – A Week in Pictures September 12, 2010
As the anniversary of the 9/11 attack coincided with Eid celebrations, Florida based Pastor Terry Jones announced that he would burn the Koran as a protest to plans to site a Muslim cultural centre...
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Obama in India next month; ripples in the region
U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to India is still a couple of weeks away and there is the huge U.S. election before then, but it has already set off ripples in the region. The Chinese have...
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India, U.S. build ties, with an eye on China
In the end, Pakistan wasn't the unspoken elephant in the room when U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for talks with Indian leaders. Far from tip-toeing around India's Pakistan problem which...
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Suu Kyi underlines India’s strategic approach to Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmarese pro-democracy leader who was released from seven years of continuous house detention on Nov 13, used her first interview with an Indian media organisation to criticise...
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Permit-free visits for foreigners to India’s Unexplored Paradise?
For the first time in half a century, India plans to let foreigners visit all of its troubled north east without special permits, opening up the picturesque region that New Delhi hopes will be its...
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Does the Indian media overplay Indo-Chinese tension?
New Delhi’s flat-out denial of the most recent reports by state authorities of Chinese military incursions across its border with India in Jammu and Kashmir may show a tendency to gloss over such...
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Where has India’s hawkish stance on China gone?
India’s complex diplomacy with China became further muddled on Friday as the chief of the Indian army categorically denied any troop build-up on either side of the Asian giants’ shared border in...
View ArticleIs India really the world’s fifth most powerful country?
India is the world’s fifth most powerful country, according to a New Delhi-authored national security document, the Times of India reported on Wednesday, as Indian analysts placed the emerging nation...
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Has India squandered its English advantage?
When the British were finally expelled from India in 1947, driven out of a country scarred by decades of imperialist rule, they left at least one parting gift: a linguistic legacy that has formed a...
View ArticleRetail volte face confirms India as BRIC that disappoints
Jim O'Neill, the Goldman Sachs banker who coined the term BRICs to capture the fast-growing emerging-markets quartet of Brazil, Russia, India and China, has fingered India as the BRIC that has...
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The biggest losers in India’s economic slowdown
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not those of Thomson Reuters Corp.) The reaction to news that India’s economy grew at its slowest rate in over a decade was predictable. There...
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Last chance for the Indian economy? Mihir Sharma explains
In the history of India’s economic reforms, rhetoric has often proved to be a stronger force than substance. Scrutinizing The Indian Growth Story, a facile phrase casually tossed about by newsmakers...
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India can become world’s fifth-largest economy by decade’s end: Jim O’Neill
Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICs to highlight emerging economic powerhouses Brazil, Russia, India and China, said India’s budget lacked a “wow” factor but was good enough to push the country on a...
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China? India? We’re grateful for their help: Nepal’s ambassador to India
By Mayank Bhardwaj and Ratnajyoti Dutta A 7.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal and parts of northern India on Saturday, killing more than 4,300 people and injuring thousands more. It is the most...
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Q&A with Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog
By Manoj Kumar and Douglas Busvine India has every chance of becoming an export powerhouse, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s top economic adviser Arvind Panagariya told Reuters, despite an ill wind...
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